Lady&#39;s hat-bag.



S. E. LAUGHLIN.

LADYS HAT BAG.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.26, 1914.

Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

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S. E. LAUGHLIN.

LADYS HAT BAG.

APPLICATION-FILED AUG-26. 1914.

1,205,225. Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

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$zj 2AM m ATTORN EY SARA E. LAUGHLIN, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

LADY S HAT-BAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1916.

Application filed August 26, 1914. Serial No. 858,590.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SARA E. LAUGHLIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ladies Hat-Bags, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to hand luggage carriers, and is especially directed to cases for carrying hats.

The principal objects of my invention are to provide a hat case formed of flexible material, so constructed as to substantially conform to a hat, to provide stiffening means for maintaining the proper shape of the case, to provide a flexible closure for said case arranged to be flexed around said stiffening means, and to provide means for holding said closure in closed position.

Other objects of my invention are to pro vide a hat case having a plane inner wall, and a bulged outer wall which is extended to lap over the upper edge of the inner wall, and be removably secured thereto, and to provide a handle for said case permanently secured to the bulged wall substantially at the region of its bend around said inner wall.

Further objects of my invention are to provide a hat case with an auxiliary pocket or pouch for containing small articles as may be desired to be carried to provide said pouch of a substantially circular contour disposed in concentric relation to the hat crown, and to attach said pouch to the plane wall of the case by substantially crescent formed stitching.

y invention further comprehends all of the various novel features of construction and arrangement hereinafter more definitely described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a rear elevational view of a hat case constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2 is a front elevational view of the hat case shown in Fig. 1, showing the closure flap distended into its open position; Fig. 3 is an inner face view of the back wall and the parts carried thereby, showing acorner broken away for convenience of illustration; and Fig. 4 is a central vertical transverse sectional View of the case containing a hat and showing the closure flap slightly extended for convenience of illustration.

In said figures the back wall 1 which exbing or material,

tends in a plane, is provided along its side and bottom edges with the continuously extending hem 2 and is secured by stitching 3 with the front wall 4 having a corresponding hem 5, and having plaits or folds 6, 7, 8 and 9, providing a fullness forming the chamber 10 for the hat 11, shown in Fig. 4.

The back wall 1 is provided with the reed or stay, comprising the stiffening bar 12 of any suitable material, extending through the hem 13 along the upper edge, of the back wall 1, and from beneath which hem depends a suitable support by which the hat 11 may be suspended, comprising the strap 15 having at its free end a pin or clasp 16 forming a convenient means of engagement of said hat within the chamber 10.

The front wall 4 as shown in Fig. 2 is extended upwardly to form the closure flap 17 which as shown in Fig. 4 may be flexed over the reinforced upper edge of back wall 1, and which is provided in its hem 18 with snap clasp buttons 19, arranged to engage the complementary snap clasp sockets 20 and be held in closed position thereby as shown at the left in Fig. 1, in which figure the flap 17 at the right is shown turned back for convenience of illustration.

The case may be conveniently carried by the handle 22 which has its end cars 23 and 24 secured, preferably by stitching, to the front wall 4 substantially in the line of the bend of the flap, so as to extend directly over the upper edge of the back wall 1, and

in parallel relation therewith, as best shown in Fig. 4.

In order to provide further carrying capacity, the case is rovided with a pocket or pouch 25 disposecFsubstantially in concentric relation to the hat 11 and extending within the crown thereof as shown in Fig. 4. Said pouch may be best formed of opposed disks 26 and 27 of any suitable websecured to the inner face of the back Wall 1 as best shown in Figs. 3 and 4, by stitching 29 which extends through the disks 26 and 27 and the back wall 1 and which follows the contour of the edge of said disks, and terminates a suflicient distance from the top to provide a suitable opening 30 for the reception and removal of the articles 32, shown therein in Fig. 4.

As best shown in Fig. 3 the disk 27 is provided with suitably formed plaits 33 and 34, for affording the fullness shown in Fig. 4 whereby the articles 32 may be conveniently carried therein without tending to distort the back wall of the case out of its plane.

It will be obvious from the foregoing description that the case may be readily opened to insert the hat 11, and that when closed the flap 17 extends in a plane with the plane back wall 1 upon which the stress of the load falls.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A device of the class described, comprising a normally flat wall, a plaited wall h ving a closure flap overlying said flat wall, means for temporarily engaging said flap to said fiat Wall, and a handle on said plaited wall adjacent to said flap.

2. A device of the class described comprising a substantially flat wall, a reinforcement extending along the upper edge of said flat wall, a bulged wall having an extension forming a flap extendable over the edge of said flat wall, means on the outside of said fiat wall for temporarily engaging said flap, and a handle on said bulged wall adjacent to said flap.

A device of the class described, comprising a substantially flat wall, a reinforcing bar included in the hem at the upper edge thereof, a bulged wall having an extension capable of projecting in aplane therewith or of extending around the upper edge and overlying the outside surface of said flat wall, snap clasp sockets in said flat wall spaced from the upper edge thereof,

snap clasp buttons in the free edge of said flap and arranged to engage said sockets, and a handle secured to said bulged wall and extending in the plane of said flat wall when said flap is engaged therewith.

i. A hat case comprising a fiat wall, a bulged wall having a flap overlying the opposite surface of said fiat wall and arranged to be removably engaged therewith, a flexible support depending within said case from said flat wall and having means to engage a hat, and a handle on said bulged wall adj acent to the flap of said flap.

A hat case comprising a fiat wall, a bulged wall having a flap overlying the flat wall and arranged to be engaged therewith, a handle on said bulged wall, and a pouch within said case in concentric relation with the crown of a hat supported therein.

6. Ahat case having substantially straight sides and a curved bottom edge, formed of a flat wall and a bulged wall secured by stitching along their edges, the fulness in the bulged wall being-effected by radiating A plaits in the straight side and curved bottom edges.

In testimony whereofI have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SARA E. LAUGHLIN.

Witnesses J. F. REYNOLDS SCO'r'r, GUY CLAIR.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C. 

